Excessive handle_probe_req: send failed messages

[Jouni Malinen]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 11:56:10PM +0200, bugs at jth.net wrote:
> For years and still in OpenWrt there has been an issue of hostapd spamming the log with 
> 
> hostapd: handle_probe_req: send failed
> 
> messages 
> e.g.
> 2026-08-27T09:12:05+02:00  RKunst hostapd: handle_probe_req: send failed
> 2026-08-27T09:12:06+02:00  RKunst hostapd: handle_probe_req: send failed
..

It would be good for someone who can reproduce this to try to debug why
that send operation is failing. It should not really fail that commonly
unless something else is wrong.

> see also 
> 
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/21494
> 
> I wonder, if this is an issue which can be handled here e.g at least by a filter
> reducing the amount of messages.

I'd much rather address the root cause than hide that message indicating
that something seems quite wrong..

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA